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A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
- Suicide or self-harm
- Bleak ending
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- CRCulveron TMDB · Jun 20188/10
In 1966, Jean-Luc Godard made the acquaintance of some young members of the French Left who felt a strong pull towards Maoism. By looking to China, they sought to escape the traditional division of the French Left into supporters of the Soviet Union, which had lost its revolutionary fervour, and Trotskyist parties, which were impotent. (Of course, at the time the West was still generally unaware of the horrific toll of Mao's policies.) Godard, whose sociological curiosity and political engagement was strong in these years, decided to study this phenomenon, and the result is LA CHINOISE. While Godard would eventually go on to make a few films that were so didactically political that one felt bludgeoned by the message and watching was no fun, this one surprised me in how entertainingly its plot played out and how astute its observations were. In a Parisian flat borrowed for the summer while one member's parents are away, a group of young radicals lodge together and fancy themselves a revolutionary cell. Chief among them are Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Léaud), Véronique (Anne Wiazemsky) and Yvonne (Juliet Berto). They read daily from Mao, decrying the Soviet Union and French society, and p
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Cast
- Anne WiazemskyVéronique
- Jean-Pierre LéaudGuillaume
- Juliet BertoYvonne
- Michel SemeniakoHenri
- Lex De BruijnKirilov
- Omar DiopOmar
- Francis JeansonFrancis
- Blandine JeansonBlandine
- Eliane GiovagnoliSon Ami
- Charles L. BitschSelf - Assistant Director (uncredited)
Crew
- Jean-Luc GodardDirector
- Jean-Luc GodardWriter
- Raoul CoutardDirector of Photography
- Michel LegrandOriginal Music Composer
- Agnès GuillemotEditor
- Delphine DesfonsEditor
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